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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I hadn't thought about it, but maybe SLC is ripe for the double deck bus approach (" Making bus service sexy and more equitable ," 2012) for rebranding and repositioning of bus service as sexy, even though the ridership numbers wouldn't justify it otherwise. Besides the general TDM approach, utilize other methods to promote transit.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In the years immediately following conservatorship (which began in September 2008), the FHFA increasingly took over setting the average G-fee. Through 2013, the fee moved up strongly as part of the FHFA’s push to raise the cost of GSE mortgages in an attempt to “crowd in” more private market capital into mortgage lending.

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Options for Expanding Property Tax Relief for Lower Income Homeowners

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Three years of deferred circuit breaker taxes are due and payable if the taxpayer transfers the home to another owner or stops using it as their legal residence (either of which is termed a “disqualifying event”). In 2008, the General Assembly added a provision to G.S. Let’s work through an example of the circuit breaker math.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. Even better, it permits bypassing the traditional media with their message in real time as an event occurs.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This was proposed a number of years ago for EM, first in the Barry Administration and then around 2012-2013, but the vendors fought it, with the support of now Mayor Muriel Bowser. We did this in 2008 or 2009. Event space, Old Main Street Station, Richmond. I was involved in helping "to save" that area c.